Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, carrot cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Carrot Cake is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They are fine and they look wonderful. Carrot Cake is something which I have loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook carrot cake using 13 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Carrot Cake:

1. Take 175 g self raising flour
2. Prepare 175 ml sunflower oil
3. Prepare 175 g light brown soft sugar
4. Prepare 3 large eggs, lightly beaten
5. Prepare 140 g grated carrot (about 3 medium carrots)
6. Take 100 g raisins
7. Take 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
8. Get 1 tsp ground cinnamon
9. Get 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
10. Take For the icing:
11. Prepare 110 g unsalted butter, softened
12. Prepare 225 g full fat cream cheese
13. Take 480 g icing sugar

Steps to make Carrot Cake:

1. Pre-heat the oven to 180C/Fan 160/Gas 4. - Grease & line two 20cm sandwich tins with baking paper. - Put the sugar into a mixing bowl, pour in the oil & add the eggs. Mix together lightly then stir in the carrots & raisins. - Mix the flour, bicarbonate of soda & spices then sift into the bowl. Mix together gently until all the ingredients are incorporated. The mixture should be quite soft & runny.
2. Divide the mixture between the prepared tins & bake for 40-45 minutes. To check insert a skewer or tip of a knife, if it comes out clean it's done. The cake should also feel firm & springy to touch. - Allow the cakes to cool for 5 minutes in their tins then turn them out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
3. To make the icing beat together the butter & cream cheese then carefully mix in the icing sugar. I mix in about 1/3 at a time as it can get messy! - Place one of the cakes on a serving plate & spread with half of the icing. - Take the other cake & carefully place it on top then spread over the rest of the icing. - Decorate with walnut halves if you wish.

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